Odd too that natives of the Americas had Greek words in their language. Potomac meaning river and potamos meaning water. The Teocali meaning house of god same as theou kalia. Tomahawk means cut and whack. Toma is cut and atom in Greek means not cut.

Other strange words are "fascinate" which shares the same root with "Fascism"--both come from "fasces" which are white birch rods tied together with an bronze axehead protruding to symbolize the strength through unity. Fasces means "bundle." The symbol in Ancient Rome evoked feelings of deep loyalty and hence fascination. It used to be on the backs of American dimes but has since been replaced by a torch.

A type of Croatian neckwear appealed tot he French who called it croate which became crovate then cravate and finally cravat.

Trumpet, trombone, drum and thunder are all essentially the same word.

English towns like Manchester, Lancaster, Gloucester and Dorchester get their name from the Latin castra or camp. And I have heard that the wich and wick in town names as Norwich, Sandwich, Southwick, Eastwick etc also means camp.

Thing is Viking and means an assembly. "This thing" "This assembly." Thingvoll, Assembly Wall.

I mentioned in an earlier post that the Egnlish slang for a girl--bint--is also the Arabic word for a girl. The old name for Ireland was Scotia and was taken over by Scotland. Scotia is Greek for dark.

Curfew is of Norman-French derivation--couver-feu or cover the fire, put it out as in go home.

Magister and Magistrate from which master is derived both contain "magi"--someone who mastered the stars, someone of great learning or ability or power.

Gasket is from the French for "little girl." The first gaskets were made of braided rope and resembled a girls braided pigtails. Screw means pig because of the curly tail. Torque means torture and refers to tightening as with a rack or thumbscrews. So an instruction as "position the gasket and cover and install four screws in cover and torque screws" really means to position the little girl and cover and install four pigs and then torture the pigs.

Disposition comes from astrology and related to star location which they believed affected a person's mood and hence "He was of a jolly disposition."

Mathematics derives from the Greek mathein or "to learn."

The Romans were not studious or pendantic. When the needed a word for a place of learning, the took it from the Greeks--schola. That became the Latin word for "school." But to the Greeks, talking about philosophy, mathematics, dialectic, debate, etc. was a natural way to spend one's time and hence these disciplines classified as schola which is Greek for "leisure."

The word jot came from the Greek letter iota.

Paper is derived from papyrus for obvious reasons.

Mystery derives from the Greek muein or "to keep silent" but which became "to initiate" which gave rise to a body of secret teachings or mu-sterion which became in Latin "mysterium" and finally mystery.

Apoplexy is Greek but in Latin is "sideratio" meaning star-struck. Likewise a crisis meant a point at which a disease turned either for the better or the worse and depended upon the conjunction of the stars.

Ammonia is Egyptian and named for an alkali in the soil of Libya near where stood a temple to Zeus-Ammon. Autumn, where nights grow longer than the days, is derived from the Egyptian god Atum--the god of the setting sun.

Temple is derived from temporal because the priests of the temples set the calendars and were seen as the keepers of time.